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Blockmodeling Complex Statutes: Mapping Techniques Based on Combinatorial Optimization for Analyzing Economic Legislation and Its Stress Points over Time

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  • Scott A. Boorman

    (Yale University)

  • Paul R. Levitt

    (Harvard University & Yale University)

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Blockmodeling, a combinatorial technique for relational data analysis, is applied to studying texts of complex economic legislation. By making this area a subject for mathematical modeling, using methods related to combinatories, logic, and discrete optimization, we describe a new type of frontier between law and economics.

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  • Scott A. Boorman & Paul R. Levitt, 1983. "Blockmodeling Complex Statutes: Mapping Techniques Based on Combinatorial Optimization for Analyzing Economic Legislation and Its Stress Points over Time," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 665, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
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